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Classical Music: ‘Play It Forward 2026’ for BPO Scholarship Fund

Join us for the Friends of the BPO’s annual Play It Forward luncheon at the Twentieth Century Club! This special fundraising event will feature performances by our 2026 Young Musician’s Scholarship winners, a basket raffle, and more.

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Buffalo Opera: Nickel City Opera presents ‘A Candle Opera Concert’

Nickel City Opera (nickelcityopera.org) is proud to present Season 18 with a night of a thousand candles at A Candle Opera Concert, Saturday, June 13th, 7:00pm at Canterbury Woods Performing […]

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Buffalo Music: Carmina Burana

As the first of a trilogy of cantatas, Orff’s irreverent Carmina Burana draws from a 13th century compilation of vagabond songs and poems detailing fate’s fickleness, pagan delights, and corruption, with hypnotic sensuality and powerful rhythms. Hindemith’s reworked Symphonic Dances emerged from a discarded ballet collaboration.

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Buffalo Music: Patriotic Pops with BPO

Join your BPO and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus for a patriotic tradition as we honor the men and women who have served our country and pay tribute to the American spirit.

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Buffalo Music: American Soundscapes

Our season concludes with three iconic compositions and two orchestral world premieres. The program opens with Bernstein’s toe-tapping Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, a comedic Broadway hit filled […]

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Buffalo Music: The Music of The Tragically Hip with The Strictly Hip

Bradley Thachuk, conductor The music of Canada’s most popular rock band heats up Kleinhans with the return engagement of The Strictly Hip and their faithful interpretation of The Hip’s classic […]

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Buffalo Music: Haydn Cello Concerto

The powerful, tense chords of Sibelius’ patriotic Finlandia open a program filled with nationalistic pride. The orchestration is stirring, powerful, and yet restrained at times—evocative of the fact that the […]

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Buffalo Music: Patriotic Pops

Ron Spigelman, conductor Sal Andolina, saxophone Join your BPO and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus for a patriotic tradition as we honor the men and women who have served our country […]

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Buffalo Music: The Travesties & Canela The Big Easy in Buffalo Local Series – Sportsmens

Sportsmens presents The Travesties & Canela The Big Easy in Buffalo Local series Sportsmen’s Tavern Thursday April 30, 5pm doors, 7pm show $15 The Travesties (garage folk) & Canela […]

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Buffalo Music: UB Music at Hallwalls presents Graduate Composers

UB Music at Hallwalls is a collaborative concert series between the University at Buffalo Department of Music and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Featuring UB performance faculty and students, the series […]